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FQlK,VAYS RECCR)S ALBUM NO. FP 36 COPYRIGHT 1952 BY FOLKWAYS RECORDS & SERVICE CORP. 117 w. 46 ST. NYC

MORMON FOLK SONGS INTRODUCTION AND NOTES ON THE RECORDINGS BY WilLARD RHODES

THII ALBUM or UUIIC II A SOCIAL AND CULTURAL HISTORY or THE DEVELOPMENT or THE STATE or UTAH IN FOLK SONG. EARLY IN MY QUEIT 'OR THIS RARE AND VALUABLE MATERIAL I LEARNED THAT THE HISTORY or UTAH IS THE HISTORY or THE MORMON CHURCH. THE IE REGIONAL FOLK SONaI ARE TRULY MORMON FOLK SONGS FOR THEY HAVE BEEN INSPIRED BY THE CHURCH AND THE LIFE or THE MORMON COIIIIUNITY. THE CHURCH IS THE DOIIINANT AND CONTINUING INFLUENCE ON THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE COIIIIUNITY IN UTAH TODAY. IN ADDITION TO RETELLING IN A MOST ENTERTAINING MANNER THE STORY 0' THE IETTLING or THE ITATE, THESE SONGS, WITH THEIR ,IDE RANGE or SU8..IECT MATTER, DEPICT THE DAY-BY-DAY LIVING or THE PEOPLE AND COIIIIUNICATE TO UI THEIR MARVELOUS SPIRIT.

THE UUSIC or THE MORMON FOLK lONGS IS RARELY ORIGINAL. 'OLK HYUNS, COUNTRY FIDDLE TUNES, BRITISH BALLAD MELODIES AS WELL AS THOSE or THE AMERICAN BARD, STEPHEN FOSTER, HAVE BEEN ADAPTED TO THEIR NEEDS AND USED AI A FRAUE-

WORK FOR THE NEW AND ORIGINAL MORMON LYRICS. "COlE COIlE YE IAINTS" (1I,NO.2) 18 SET TO

I n It AN OLV FOLK HYMN-TUNE, ALL II WELL, WHICH APP~ARED IN THE GEORGIA SAC REp HaRP OF 1844. IT HAS BEEN REPRINTED AS NO. 58 IN SPIRITUAL FOLK SONGS or EARLY aMERICA BY GEORGE :U~LEN

"ACKSON. "WHOAI HAl IIUCK AND JEAIIY lIoY (I ,NO.2) HAS BEEN F"I TTED TO THE POPULAR COUNTRY DANCE­TUNE "TURKEY IN THE STRAti". "THE HAND CAAT SONG" (I, NO • .) IS BASED ON ANOTHER COUNTRY DANCE-TUNE, KNOWN UNDER THE GORY TITLE or liTHE KING OF THE CANN(BAL ISLANDI" (P. 84 IN DANCES or OUR PIONEEAS BY GRACE L. RYAN). STEPHEN FOSTER'I "OH, SUIANNA" FURNISHED THE MELODY FOR "UCK, THE MORMON ENGI NEER" (',No.6)

THE 80NG8 ARE PRE8ENTED HERE IN THE SIMPLE, UNADORNED MANNER IN WHICH THEY WEAE 8UNG A­ROUND CAMP 'IREI AND IN HOIIE8 IN THE PAST. NO ACCOMPANIMENT HAS BEEN ADDED. THE SINGER, MR. LAlOVI M. HILTON, CAME IIY . THE8E 80NGS NATURALLY. IN HI8 CHILDHOOD HE HEARD HI8 GRANDMOTHER AND HI8 PARENT8 SING THEM. WITH THE ENTHUSIASM AND ARTISTRY 0' A NATURAL-BORN SINGER, MR. HilTON TAKES DELIGHT IN SHARING THESE SONGS WITH OTHERS. A LIFE-LONG MEIIIER or THE "MORMON" CHURCH, HE IS I N THE HI GH PAlEST'S PRESIDENCY OF THE OGDEN STAKE or ZION. 'OR THE PAST TWENTY SEVEN YEARS, HE HAS SERVED AS A POLICE or'ICER or OGDEN CITY, UTAH, AND IS PRESENTLY SUPERINTENDENT 0' THE BUREAU or IDENTIFICATION AND RECORDI.

THE E~IC or THE MORMON MIGRATION rROM THE EAITERN UNITED ITATEI INTO THE LITTLE-KNOIN REGIONI or THE rAR W£IT IN THE MIDDLE or THE NINETEENTH CENTURY II ONE or THE MOaT EXCIT­ING AND MOVING CHAPTERI IN AMERICAN HIITORY. rOLLOWINa HI8 DIICOVERY or THE GOLDEN TABLET8 CONTAINING THE BOOK or MORMON NEAR PALMYRA, NEW YORK, JOSEPH IMITH rOUNDED THE CHURCH or JE8U8 CHRIIT or LATTER-DAY IAINTS, POPULAALY KNOWN AS THE MORMON CHUACH. IN 1831 HEAD­QUARTEAI WEAE EITA8LI8HED AT KIRTLAND, OHIO. WI TH I N A rEW YEAAS THE "SA I NTS" HAD MOVED 1.8 rAA WEITWARD AS INDEPENDENCE, MISSOURI. THEAE MIIUNDERITANDINGS LED TO OONrLIOT WITH THEIR "GENTILE" NEIGHBORS AND THE COLONY MOVED TO NAUVOO, ILLINOII. IN 1842 NAUVOO WAa THE LAAGEaT TOIN IN THE STATE AND HELD A OHAATER WHICH GAVE IT VIATUAL AUTONOMY WITH THE RIGHT TO MAINTAIN ITa OIN MILITIA AND COUATS AND TO PAas LAWS NOT IN CONrLI CT WITH THE aTATE AND rEDERAL CONSTITUTIONS. AGAIN ENVY AND rEAR AMONG THEIR NON-YORYON NEIGHBORS, INCREAaED 8Y DISIENlJON WITHIN THEIR OWN RANKS, BROUGHT TROUBLE AND THE ARREST or JOSEPH SIIITH AND H\8 BROTHER, HYRAM, CHARGED WITH TREASON, ON JUNE 24, 1846. THREE DAYS LATER THEY WERE MURDERED BY BY AN ANGRY MOB THAT BAOKE INTO THE JAIL AT CARTHAGE, ILLINOIS.

DRIVEN rROM THEIR HOWES BY PERSEOUTION AND VIOLENCE, THE MORMONS BEGAN THEIR HISTORIC TREK WESTWARD TO lEEK A NEW "ZION" UNDER THEIR NEWLY-ElEOTED LEADER, BRIGHAM YOUNG. THE EXHORTATION TO rLEE "TO THE MOUNTAINS or EPHRAIM" AND THE \lROMISE or A "HAVEN or IArE­TY IN Z I ON" ARE ELOQUENTLY PRESENTED I N THE lONG, "OH BAIYLON, OH iAlYLONS"(II,NO.I). THE JOURNEY WAS rlLLED WITH PHYSICAL HARDSHIP AND sUrrERING. MANY DIED ALONG THE WAY. AT ONE TIME WHEN THE DISOOURAGEMENT or THE PEOPLE HAn REACHED THE POINT or DESPAIR AND HOPELESS"EIS, BRIGHAM YOUNG AIKED WilLIAM OLAYTON TO WRITE A HYMN TO RALLY THEIA SPIRIT. WITHIN A COUPLE HOURa CLAYTON WR01E AND PRE8ENTED TO HII LEAnER "COME, COME YE SAINT8", (1I,No.2), A NT '" WHICH _HA~ IE~OIE THE THEME or THE CHURCH or JE8US CHRIST or LATTER-DAY 8AINTS. IT YAY IE HEARD ON THE IUNDAY RAni 0 BROADOA8TS or THE MORYON CHOIR rROM THE TABERNACLE IN 8ALT LAKE OITY. ITI 10lACI"GI RErRAI", "ALL IS WELL", RENEWED AND IUITAIKED THE rAITH or THEIE COURAGEOUS PIONEER8 ON THEIR RUGGED JOURNEY.

VIEW OF NAUVOO CITY.

T HE A SSASSINATION OF J OSEPH S'MI.fUl..

THOUGH THE ~OURNEY WAS HARD, THERE WERE MOMENTS or GAIETY, rUN AND COURTSHIP AS IS EVIDENCED IN THE liVELY SONe;;, "WHOA! HAl BUCK AND ~ERRY BoY" ((I,NO.2). DANCING IS REGARDED BY THE MORMONS AS A HEALTHY, NOR­MAL MED I UM or 80C I Al EN~oYMENT AND CONSTI­TUTEI AN IMPORTANT PART or THE PROGRAM or THE MUTUAL IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION, A CHURCH-8PONSORED ORGANIZATION, DEVOTED TO THE MORAL AND 80CIAl DEVELOPMENT or THE YOUNG PEOPLE.

MISSIONARY WORK HAS BEEN A MA~OR ACTIVITY or THE MORMONI rROM THE EARLY DAYS or THE CHURCH DOWN TO THE PRE8ENT. THERE ARE rEW PlACE8 IN THE WORLD TODAY THAT HAVE NOT BEEN VISITED BY THE MORMON MIS810NARIES. CONVERTS rRQU THE BRITISH ISLES, THE ICANDINAVIAN OOUNTRIES AND GERMANY, CAME I N LARGE NUMBERS TO ~Ol N THE I R MORMON BRETHREN HERE IN AMERICA. TODAY THEIR DE-8CENDENTS ARE AN INTEGRAL PART or UTAH'S POPULATION. rOR MANY or THE EUROPEAN MEM­BERS or THE PARTY lED BY BRIGHAM YOUNG, THE ~OURNEY IUS ESPEC I ALLY RI GOROUS.

lACKING WAGONS, HOR8ES, OXEN, AND THE MEANS TO PROCURE THEM, THEY WERE OBLIGED TO MAKE THE lONG TRIP ACROSS THE PLAINS ON fOOT, PU8HING AND PUlliNG THEIR fEW POSSESSIONS IN HAND CARTS. THEIR STORY IS RELATED IN "THE HAND CART SONG" (I,NO:I).

THE EARLY YEARS Of THE SETTLEMENT WERE DiffiCULT ONES. fOOD WAS SCARCE AND OfTEN THE PIONEERS WERE OBLIGED TO SATISfY THEIR HUNGER BY EATING THE ROOTS or THE NATIVE SAGO lilY. "THE SAGO lilY" (I,NO.3) EXPRE .. U THE AffECTIONATE REGARD IN WHICH THE PEOFlE Of UTAH HOLD THEIR STATE flOWER.

FOllOWING THE HARD WINTER OF 1849 THE MORMONS SUffERED A NEW AND THREATENING MENACE TO THEIR ECONOMIC SECURITY. THEIR fiELDS or GRAIN WERE ATTACKED BY A HORDE or CRICKETS AND WOULD HAVE BEEN OOMPlETELY DESTRoYED HAD IT NOT BEEN fOR THE MIRAOUlOUS IHTER­VENTI ON OF THE SEA GULLS. "SEA GULL. AND CRICKET8" (I,NO.4) REOOUNTS THI8 BIT Of lOCAL HISTORY IN A VIVID MANNER. THERE STANDI IN THE TEMPLE 'QUARE Of IAlT LAKE CITY A MONUMENT TO THE SEA GUllS OOUUEMORA­TING THIS EVENT.A ITATE LAW PROHIBITS THE KILLING or THESE BIRD •• ).{ORlf:O~ EllIGRA.TlON'.

THE MORMONa WERE MOST FORTUNATE IN THEIR CHOICE OF A LEADER. BRIGHAM YOUNG WAS A NAN OF GREAT VISION, EXTRAORDINARY EXECUTIVE AND ADMINISTRATIVE ABILITY, AND A PERSONAL­ITY THAT INSPIRED IN HIS FOLLOWERS LOYALTY AND DEVOTION TO THEIR CAUSE AND THE WILL TO SUCCEED. "HARD TIMES, COME AGAIN NO NORE" (11,NO.3),REPUTED TO BE BRIGHAN YOUNG'S FAVOR­ITE SONG, IS A DIRECT, SIMPLE STATEMENT OF THE FAITH AND OPTIMISM WHICH ANIMATED HIM AND HIS PEOPLE. ".HAT'S THE USE OF REPIN­ING" (II,NO.6)SETS FORTH MORE OF THE HOWELY, PRAGMATIC PHILOSOPHY OF THESE HARDY PIONEERS AND THEIR INDOMITABLE PERSEVERANCE. INDUSTRY WAS STRESSED AS A VIRTUE, AND THE BEEHIVE BECAME A SYNBOL OF THE MORMONS.

AT A MASS MEETING HELD IN 1868, THE PEOPLE PASSED A RESOLUTION TO ASSIST IN THE BUILD­ING OF THE UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD THROUGH THEIR COUNTRY. BRIGHAN YOUNG ACTED AS CON­TRACTOR TO 'SUPPLY LABORERS TO THE COMPANY. "THE ECHO CANYON SONG" (I, No.5), MADE AND SUNG BY BRI COHAM YOUNG'S "MORMON BOYI" FUR­NISHES INTERESTING SIDELIGHTS ON THE BUILD­ING OF THE UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD AND THE PREVAILING ATTITUDE OF THE MORMONS TOWARD THIS NEW NEANS OF CONUUNICATION AND TRAVEL. CERTAIN GROUPS OF PEOPLE OPPOSED THE IN­TRUSION OF THE RAILROAD INTO THEIR "ZION" AND VOl CED THE I R SE NT I MENTS I N OTHER SONGI.

IN 1862 BRIGHAN YOUNG ANNOUNCED THE DOCTRINE OF PLURAL MARRIAGE BAaED ON ~08EPH SMITH'S VISION OF 1843. THE qUEITION OF POLYGAMY BE­CANE A BURNING ISaUE IN THE NID-NINETEENTH CENTURY AND MUCH OF THE PERSECUTION OF THE "SAl NTS." WAS FOMENTED BY NON-IofORNONS WHO WERE I NCENaED BY TH IS NORMON DOCTRI ME AND PRAOTICE. IN I .~ CONGRESa PAllED A UW AGAINIT POLYGAMY WHICH WAS AINED 10LELY AT UTAH. IN 1890 PRESIDENT WILFORD WOODRUFF MADE A STATEMENT ON POLYGAMY WHICH WADE IT POilliLE FOR UTAH TO BE ADNITTED TO THE UNION IN 1896. IN "ZACK, THE NORNON ENGIN­EER" (I,NO.6» THE SUB~ECT OF POLYGAMY la TREATED IN A LIGHT AND HUNOROUa WAY.

THE "pROIoII8ED LAND" REFERRED TO I N "GATHER ROUND THE CAaP FIRE, BRETHREN" (11,NO.4) WAa KNOWN TO THE MORMONS Aa THE "STATE OF DEaERET". IT HAD IEEN BRIGHAM YOUNG'S HOPE THAT THE UTAH TERRITORY WOULD BE ADMITTED TO THE UNION AS THE STATE OF DESERET. SOME­THING OF THE PRESENT GREATNESS AND IMPOR­TANCE OF UTAH IS PROPHESIED IN THE SECOND VERSE OF tHIS SONG.

THE LAST SONG OF TH IS COLLECT ION, "HAVE COURAGE, NY BOY, TO SAY NO" (11,NO.s), WITH ITa LEasON IN MORALITY, HAS SERVED NORMON PARENTS IN CHARACTER-BUILDING ANIl THE TRAINING OF YOUTH. IT IS AN EXAMPLE OF THE PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF THE TEACHINGS OF THE CHURCH TO THE PROBLEMS OF LIFE. THE aOCIAL AND RELIGIOUS EDUCATION OF MORNON YOUTH IN THE HONE AND CHURCH IS A VITAL PART OF THE CHURCH PROGRAM AND IS CLOSELY LINKED WI TH THE MISSIONARY WORK ANIl THE AC·TlVITIE. OF THE WEI.FARE ORGANIZATIONS.

MORMON CAlIIP AT COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOWA.

THE HAI'l) CART 500

YE SAINTS WHO DWELL ON EUROPE'S SHORE, PREPARE YOURSELVES FOR MANY MORE TO LEAVE BEHIND YOUR NATIVE LAND, FOR SURE GOD'S ~UDGMENTS ARE AT HAND. FOR YOU MUST CROSS THE RAGING MAIN IEFORE THE PROMISED LAND YOU GAIN, AND WITH THE FAITHFUL MAKE A START TO CROSS THE PLAINS WITH YOUR HAND CART.

CHORUS: FOR SOME MUST PUSH AND SOME MUST PULL

AS WE GO MARCHING UP THE HILL AND MERRILY ON OUR WAY WE GO UNTIL WE REACH THE VALLEV-O.

THE LANDS lHAT lOAST or MODERN LIGHT WE KNOW ARE ALL AS DARK AS NIGHT, WHERE POOR MEN TOIL AND WANT rOR BREAD, WHERE PEASANT HOSTS ARE ILINDLY LEAD. THESE LANDI THAT lOAST or LIBERTY YOU NE'ER AGAIN WILL WISH TO SEE. WHEN YOU FROM EUROPE MAKE A .TART TO CROSI THE PLAINS WITH YOUR HAND-CART.

CHORUS

AS ON THE ROAD THE CARTI ARE PULLED, T'WOULD VERY MUOH SURPRISE THE WORLD TO SEE THE OLD AND FEEILE DAME THUS LEND A HAND TO PULL THE SAY[. AND MAIDENI rAIR WILL DANCE AND SING, YOUNG MEN MORE HAPPY THAN THE KING, AND CHILDREN TRUE WILL LAUGH AND PLAY, THEIR STRENGTH INCREASING DAY BY DAY.

OHORUS

AND LONG IEFORE THE VALLEY'S GAINED WE WILL BE MET UPON THE PLAINS WITH MUSIC SWEET' AND FRIENDI 10 DEAR, AND rRESH SUPPLIES OUR HEARTI TO CHEER. AND THEN 81TH MUSIC AND WITH lONG HOI CHEERFULLY WE'LL MARCH ALONG, AND THANK THE DAY WE MADE A START TO CROSI THE PLAINI WITH OUR HAND CART.

OHORUS

WHEN YOU GET THERE AMONG TH~REST OBEDIENT IE AND YOU'LL BE BLESSED, AND IN GaD'l CHAMBERS BE SET IN WHILE ~UDGMENTS CLEANSE THE EARTH FROM

81 N. FOR WE DO KNOI IT WILL BE 10, GOD'S 8ERVANTS SPOKE IT LONG AGO. WE SAY IT IS HIGH TIME TO START TO CROSS THE PLAINS WITH YOUR HAND OART.

JlOR)(ON TABBRNACLB CAMP ON THEIR ARRIVAL IX UTAIL

I'lliOAI HAl BI£K AND .£PRY BOY

WITH A WERRY LITTLE "'OG 4111) A QAY LITTLE SONG,

WHOA! HA! BUCk AND "'ERRY BOY, WE TRUDGE OUR WAY THE WHOLE DAY LONG, WHOAI HAl BUCK AND "'ERRY BOY.

WHAT THOUGH WE ARE COVERED ALL OVER WITH DUST,

IT IS lETTER THAN STAYING BACK HOUE TO RUST,

WE'LL REACH SALT LAKE SOME DAY OR BUST, WHOA! HA! lUCK AND "'ERRY lOY.

THERE'S A PRETTY LITTLE GIRL IN THE OUTFIT AHEAD,

WHOA! HAl BUCK AND "'ERRY lOY, I WISH SHE WAI BY MY SIDE INSTEAD, WHOA! HA! lUCK AND "'ERRY BOY.

LOOK AT HER NOW WITH A POUT ON HER LIPS AS DAINTILY WITH HER FINGER TIPS SHE PICKS FOR THE FIRE lOME BUFFALO CHIPS, WHOA! HA! BUCK AND "'ERRY BOY.

OH TONIGHT WE'LL DANCE BY THE LIGHT 0' THE MOON,

WHOA! HAl lUCK AND "'ERRY BOY, TO THE FIDDLERS BEST AND ONLY TUNE, WHOAI HAl BUCK AND "'ERRY BOY. HOLDING HER HAND AND ITEALING A Kill, IUT NEVER A aTEP or THE DANCE WE MilS, NEVER DID KNOW A LOVE LikE THII, WHOA! HAl lUCK AND "'ERRY lOY.

THE SAGO LI LV

8REETINGI TO THEE, SAGO LILY, IACRED EMBLEM BREATHING GOOD CHEER, ILOSSOM OF THE SAGE BRUSH DEIERT LENDING US THY ILESIING HERE.

TELL WE, IAGO, or THY STORY, WHEN THOU FIRST DID GRACE THEa, HILLS WHOSE EYEa WIRE THE FIRaT TO lEE YOU, WHO THE FIRaT TO KNOW THY THRILL?

WHEN GOD'S ALL-CREATING POWER PLACED THEE HERE IN THIS DESERT FAIR, WAS THE FIRIT SAGO LILY AS PERFEOT AS THOU ART NOW NESTLED THERE?

DID YOU SUffER AND OVEROOME HARDSHIPS WHEN YOU CAWE TO THIS REGION SO DREAR? DID GOD SEND YOU, DEAR LITTLE FLOWER TO UTAH AS A PIONEER?

DID YOU FEEL A GLOW OF PLEASURE WHEN THE PIONEERS ARRIVED AND THY ROOTS SUPPLIED THEIR HUNGER AS THE FOOD 'TIL THEY REVIVED?

ONE MORE QUESTION, SAGO LILY, ANSWER THIS, MY LAST REQUEST, WILT THOU BE THERE WITH THE ANGELS SHOULD I OHANCE TO "'OIN THE BLESSED?

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SEA GULLS AND CRICKETS

THE WI NTER Of" 149 HAIl PAiSED, A WI NTER Of' HAUNT I NG FURS, FOR FAIII HE HAD KNOCKED AT THE C I TV GA'fES AND THREATENED THE PIONEERS.

BUT SPRING WITH ITS Sill LING SKIES LENT BRAOE

AND CHEERED THE HOSTI WITHIN, AND THEY TI LLED THEIR FIELDS WITH A NEW-

BORN TRUST AND THE COURAGE TO FIGHT AND WIN.

WITH THE THRILL OF LIFE. THE TENDER SHOOTS BURST FORTH FROII THE VIRGIN PLAIN. AND EACH DAY ADDED ITS RAY OF HOPE, THE BLESSING OF RIPENED GRAIN.

BUT LO IN THE EAST STRANGE CLOUDS APPEARED AND DARK BECAIIE THE SUN. AND DOWN FROII THE IIOUNTAIN SIDEa THERE

88EPT A SCOURGE THAT THE BOLDEST SHUNNED.

THE CRICKETS BY TEN' OF IIILLIONS CAllE LIKE FOG ON A IRITISH COAST, THE FINGER OF DEVA8TATION MARKED I T8 COURSE ON THE IIORIION HOST.

WITH A VIGOR THAT DESPERATION FANNED THEY BATTLED AND SIIOTE AND SLEW, BUT THE CLOUDS STILL GATHERED AND BROKE

AFRESH 'TIL THE FIELDS THAT WAVED WERE FEW.

WITH VISIONS OF FAIlINE AND UNT AND WOE THEY PRAYED FROII THEIR HURTa 81 NOERE, WHEN LO FROII THE WE8T CAllE OTHER CLOUDS TO SUCCOR THE PIONEERS.

'TWAS SEA cULL8 FEATHERED IN ANGEL-WHITE, AND ANGELS THEY WERE FORSOOTH. THE SEA GULLS THERE IV THE THOU8ANDS CAllE TO BATTLE IN VERY TRUTH.

THEY CHARGED DOWN UPON THE CRICKET HORDE8· AND GORGINQ THEil DAY AND NIGHT, THEY ROUTED THE DEVAITAT I NG FOE AND THE CRICKE.I WERE PUT TO FLIGHT.

Ai.L HEAIlI WERE BOWED AS THEY THANKED THE I R GOD AND THEY REA~ WHILE THE DEVIL RAVED, THE HARvEST US GARNERED TO SONGI Of' ~AISE AND THE PIONEERI WERE SAVED.

ECHO CANYON SON>

IN THE CANYON OF ECHO THERE'S A ~AILROAIl BEGUN AND THE IIORIIONS ARE CUTTING AND GRADING LIKE FUN. THEY SAY THEy'LL STIOK TO IT UNTIL IT'S COUPLETE. FOR FRIENDS AND RELATIONS THEy'RE LONGING TO IlEET.

CHORUS: HURRAY! HURRAH! THE RAI LROAD'S BEGUN, THREE CHEERS FOR OUR CONTRACTOR. HII NAIIE'I

BRI GHAII YOUNG. HURRAY! HURRAH! WE'RE LIGHT-HEARTED AND

GAY, "UeT THE RIGHT K I lID or BoYS TO BU I LD A

RAILWAY.

NOW THERE'S IIR. REED, HE'S A GENTLEMAN,TOO, HE KNon VERY WELL WHAT WE II0RM0NS OAN DO. HE KNOWS IN OUR WORK WE ARE FAITHFUL AND TRUE AND IF II0RM0N BOYS BTART I T IT'I BOUND TO GO

THROUGH. OHORUS

OUR CAW IS UNITED, WE ALL LAlOR HARD AND IF WE A~E FAITHFUL WE'LL GAIN OUR REWARD. OUR LEAIlER I S WilE AIID A GRUT LEADER TOO AND ALL THIN&I HE TELLI US WE'RE RIGHT GLAD TO DO.

CHORUS

THE loYI I N OUR CAMP ARE L I aHT-HU~TED AND GAY WE WORK ON THE RAILROAD TEN HOURI A DAY WE'RE THINKING Of" FINE TlllE8 WE'LL HAVE IN THE FALL WHEN WE'LL BE WITH OUR LADIEI AND GO TO THE BALL.

WE BURELY !&Jet LIVE IN A VERY FAST AilE WE'VE TRAVELED IY OX TEA" Alii) THEN TOOK THE eTAG! BUT SOON IUCH CONVEYANCE WI LL IE ALL DONE AWAY AND WE'LL TAYEL IN STEAII CARl UPON THE RAILWAY.

CHORUB

THE GRUT LOCOllOT I VE NEXT 8£ASON WI LL COIlE TO GATHER THE IA I NlS F~OII THE I R FAR-DIITANT HOlIES AND IRING THEil TO liON IN PEAOE HE~E TO ITAY WHILE THE "UDGIIENTS or GOD SWEEP THE WICKED AWAY.

CHORUS

lACK, ll£ ~ EtGlNEER

OLD 1.CK, HE C.ME TO UT.H •• Y I.CK IN '73, ... IIHT 1000 MORIoION GENTLE ... N .ND • IIIItOlt,

TOO. .U 14£. HE DROVE. LOCOMOTIVE 'OR THE D AND R.G., .ITH .OMEN HE •• 1 POPUL.R, .1 POPULAR AS

HE POULD IE.

CHORUI: .ND WHEN HE'D WH .. TLE. HOO! Hool ........ 'D UNDE .. IUND

THAT UCK WAI HEADED HCUE.ARD ON THE DE.vER'N RIO G .. ANDE.

OLD lACK, HE HAD A .lrEY IN EVERY RAIL .. OAD TOWN.

NO ... TTER .HERE HE ITOPPED HE HAD A PLACE TO LAV HIM DOWN.

AND .HEN HII TRAIN .AI COMING HE •• NTED HER TO KNOW.

10 AI HE P.IIED E.CH .IrEY'1 HOME HII WH I I TLE HE .OU LD ILOW.

CHORUI

OLD lACK HE CLAIMED TO LOVE HII .IVEI AND LOVE THEil ALL THE lME,

IUT AL •• YI LITTLE ... IEL ••• THE ONE TH.T lACK .OULD UIIE.

AND AI HE .OULD PAil HIR HE'D lLO. H .. • HIITLE LOUD,

AND .HEN IHE'D THROW A KIIS AT HI. OLD lACK .OULD LOOK PROUD.

CHORUS

NOB LIITEN IVERYIODY, IECAUIE THII ITORY'I TRUE

OLD lACK, HE HAD A

THIY TRIED TO ... KE

IUT UCK lAID "NO"

CHORUI

.IrE IN EYE .. Y TOWN THAT HE PAlICD TIMCIU ...

HI. TRA .. 'ER ON TO THE OLD U.P.

IECAUIE NIl .IVII .E .. E ON THI D. AND R.G.

OH BABYLCfi, OH BABYLCfil

VE ELDERS or .... AIL. COlE JOIN NOW .ITH ME AND IE.RCH OUT THE RIGHTEOUI .HE .. EVER THEY

IE, IN DEIERT OR IlOUI'UIN. ON L.ND OR ON SE •• AND IRING THEil rROM •• IYLOH TO lION 10 r .. EE

r"EE.

CHORUI: OH I.IVLON, OH I.IYLON •• E lID THEE r.RE.ELL,

WE'RE GOING TO THE IlOUNTAINS or EPHR.III TO DWELL.

OUR LEADERI H.VI R.IIED THE!.R IWEET .AR .... IHG VOICE

TO rLEE UP TO ZION. THE LAND or GOD'I CHOICE. LIKE THE PROPHETI or OLD THET HAVE W.RNEB

UI TO rLEE TO THE MOUNTAINS or EPH .. AIII WHERE HAPPY

WE'LL IE.

CHORUI

PREPARE rOR THE JOURNEY YE 1.1 NTI or THE LORD

ALTHOUGH IT II TEDIOUI YOU'LL G.IN YOU .. REWARD.

YOU'VE OIEYED HII OOM*NDI AND lOWED TO H ... ILL

AND YOU WILL IE ILEIIED THERE ON 1IT.1ION'1 HILL.

OHORUI

THEN HAITEN YI IAINTI TO THE .. E'UIE PRE­PARE

TH.T llA.EL'1 IAL'.TION BY YOU MAY II IItARED.

LEA'E IAIYLON. HER 80£ ANO KlR IIIIERY BE­HIND

• HA'EN or IArETY IN lION TO rIND.

CHORUI

C<I£, C<I£ YE SA I MrS

OOlE, OOIE YE IAINTI, NO TOil NOR lAIOR rEAR IUT 11TH <lOY lEND YOUR lAY, THOUGH HAIa) TO YOU, THII JOURNEY MAY APPEAR, GRACE IHAll IE AI YOUR DAY. 'Til lETTER rAR rOR UI TO ITRIVE OUR UIElE.I CAREl rROM UI TO DRIVE. TO THII END JOY YOUR HEARTI Will IWEll, All II IEll, All II WEll.

WHY IHOUlD Wl MOURN OR TH I NIC OUR lOT I SHARD? 'Til NOT 10, All II RIGHT. IHY SHOULD IE THINK TO EARN A GREAT REIARD Ir IE NOW IHUN THE riGHT. GIRD UP YOUR lOINI, FREIH COURAGE TAICE YOUR GOD Will NEVER UI rORIAICE. AND lOON WE'll HAVE THII TALE TO TEll, All II IEll, All II IEll.

WE'll FIND THE PLACE WHICH GOD FOR UI PREPARED, 'AR AIAY, IN TNE WElT. IHERE NONE IHAll CotE TO HURT OR MAICE AFRAID. THERE THE IAINTI WilL IE IlEIIED. IE'll MAICE THE AIR 11TH NUSIO RING, IHOUT PRAIIEI TO OUR ClOD AND ICING, ABOVE THE REIT THEIE IORDI WE'LL TELL, ALL II IEll, ALL IS IELL.

AND IHOULD IE DIE IEFORE OUR "OURNEY' I THROUGH HAPPY DAY, ALL II WELL. IE THEN ARE rRII FROII TOI L AND SORROW TOO. 11TH THE .JUIT IE IHALL D~Ell. IUT IF OUR llVEI ARE SPARED AGAIN TO lEE THE IAINTI THEIR REST OBTAIN, ~, HOW IE'LL MAKE THII OHORUI SWEll ALL II IELL, ALL II W'LL.

HARD TUES CCIE AGAIN 00 /.mE

I IILL liNG or THE MORMONS, THE PEOPLE OF" THE LORD,

IINCE THE TIME THAT "OSEPH PRAYED rOR

AND THE lAY THEy'VE IEEN LIGHT,

GUIDED 8Y "EIUS' HOLY lORD

AND SAVED BY POWER or HIS UIGHT.

CHORUI: 'TIS THE SONG, THE SIGH OF" THE MORIoIONS,

HARD TIMEI, HARD TIMES, LONG OPPRESSED UI SORE,

MANY DAYI IE HAVE LINGERED AROUND OUR OAIIN DOOR,

IUT NOW IE'VE 1R18HTER DAVS IN STORE. EACH TIME THAT THE WICKED HAVE TRIED

TO OVERTHROW AND TO BRING THE WORK OF" GOD TO NAUGHT, THE lAY HAl BEEN OPENED rOR THE SAINTS

TO ESCAPE A RAM IN THE THICKET WAS CAUGHT.

CHORUS

THE GRASSHOPPERS, CRICKETI AND MOBIERS ALL COIIBINED,

IERE POWERLESS TO CRUSH OUR NOBLE CAUSE. THE MORE IE ARE HATED, THE MORE IE ARE

MALIGNED, THE MORE THE CHURCH OF" JEIUS GROIS.

CHORUS

GAlliER ROlNl 1l£ CAJIP FIRE, BREnflEN

GATHER ROUND THE CAIIPFI RE, IRETHREN, ON THE.E PLAINS IE HERE HAYE YET,

TO RE.JOI CE AND THAHK THE GoD or HEAYEN rOR THE .TATE OF DE8ERET.

CHORUS: IE CAN BUILD OUR HOUES IN SArETY

IHERE THUE UOUNTA I N l'U1.IARKI

ITAND.

IE CAN .ERYE OUR LORD AND HERE IE HAPPY

I N TH I 8 SAO RED PROUI lED LAND.

DEltRET IN ALL HER SPLENDOR IILL ONE DAY ATTRACT THE IORLD.

YODERN "REAL'e GLORIOU. GOSPEL IANNER

TO ALL YEN IILL BE UNrURLED.

CHORUS

HAVE COlRAGE II( B(1f TO SAY r«>

YOU STARTED TODAY ON LlrE'1 .JOURNEY

ALOItE ON TH' HI aHIAY or LI rE,

YOU IILL MlET 11TH A THOU.AND TEIIPTATIONS, EACH CITY 11TH EYIL Ie RlrE.

THE IORLD II A .TAGE or EXCITEMINT NO YATTER IHEREYER YOU QO.

IUT I r YOU ARE TEYPTED IN MlEKNE88 HAYE OOURA8E YY lOY TO SAY "NO".

CHOfIU.: HAYE COURAGE, IIY BOY, HAYE

COURAGE, IIY BOY, HAVE COURAGE, ." BOY, TO lAY uNO".

THE IRIGHT RUIV II NE YAY BE OFFERED,

NO YATTER HOI TEIIPTING IT 8E

rllou POI'ON THAT .TlIfCII LIKE A VI PER IIY lOY, HAYE THE COURAGE TO rLEE.

THE VILE 8AY8LING DENS ARE BErORE YOU THE LIGHT. HOI THEY DANCE TO AND rRO,

AND I r YOU ARE TEMPTED TO ENTER HAYE COURAGE, IIY BOY, TO UY "NO".

CHORUI

IN COURAGE ALON[ LIE' YOUR IArETY IHEN YOU THE LONE .JOURNEY IE81N,

IUT TRUIT I N YOUR HEAYENLY rATHER

IILL KIEP YOU UNIPOTTED rROU '111.

TE ... TATIOIII IILL 10 011 IIICREAIiNG

LI KE ITREA" rROU A RIVULET rLOI IUT Ir YOU ARE TRUE TO YOUR YANHOOD

HAYE COURAU, IIY BOY, TO SAT "NO".

OHORUI

WHAT'S THE USE OF REPINING

THIS WORLD'S A DIFFICULT RIDDLE. THERE'I 10 MANY PEOPLE YOU SEE 11TH FACEI AI LONG AI A riDDLE, WHICH OUaHT TO BE SMILING WITH GLEE. YOU KNOW IN THIS WORLD THERE II PLENTY, ENOUGH or GOOD THINGS rOR US ALL, AND YET THERE'S NOT ONE OUT OF TWENTY BUT THINKS THAT HIS SHARE 18 TOO SMALL.

CHORUS: BUT WHAT'I THE USE or REPINING FOR WHERE THERE'S A WILL THERE'S

A WAY. TOMORROW THE SUN MAY BE SHINING ALTHOUGH IT IS CLOUDY TODAY.

SOME GRUMBLE BECAUSE THEy'RE NOT MARRIED, AND CANNOT PROCU RE A GOOD WirE, WHILE OTHERS THEY WISH -HEY HAD TARRIED, AND LONG rOR A BACHELOR'S LirE. TO ME IT II VERY BEWIUDERIN', SOME GRUMBLE, IT MUST BE IN FUN, BECAUSE THEY HAVE TOO MANY CHILDREN AND OTHERS BECAUSE THEY HAVE NONE.

CHORUS

DID YOU EVER HEAR TELL or THE SPIDER, HE TRIED UP THE WALL FOR TO CLIMB. IF NOT, TAKE tHIS AS A GU,DER, IT MAY COME IN HANDY IN TIME. NINE TIMES HE TRIED HARD TO A ~CEND IT, BUT EVERY TIME TOOK A r ALL. BUT HE KEPT RI GHT ON TRY 11 '3 LI GHT­

HEARTED AND AT LAST REACHED THE TOP or THE WALL.

CHORUS

DO YOU THINK IT'I iy SITTING AND IIGHING YOU'LL EVER OBTAIN ALL YOU IANT IT'S COIARDI WHO llAND AROUND CRY I NG AND FOOLIIHLY IATING I CAN'T IT'I ONLY BY PLClDlIlNG AND IOIIKI"6 AND LAIORING UP THE ITEEP HILL 11TH FAITH IN YOUR HEART, NEYER IHIRKI"G AND lAYING lOAN AND I IILL.

CHORUI

B I BLI OORAPHV

IRIEGEL, GEORGE E., OlD TIllE "OIIIION AlII) FAR IE IT 10NGI. NEW YORK, 1935. DAVIDSON, LEVETTE ~., MORMON IONGI IN ~OURNAL OF AMERICAN FOLKLORE, VOL. LVIII, 1945. PP. 2~. DURHAM, ALFRED (EDITOR). PIONEER SONGI. BALT LAKE CllY. 1940 (2~Ul, ED.) EVANI, ~OHN HENRT. ONE HUNDRED TEARS OF MORMoNIIM. IALT LAKE CITY, 1905. FIFE, AUSTIN E. AND ALTA I. FOLK 10NGI OF MORMON INSPIRATION IN WElT ERN FOLKLORE, VO~. VI., NO. I, 1947. PP. '2-52. FIIHER, VARDII. CHILDREN OF GOD: AN AMERI­CAN EPIC. NEW YORK, 1939. IT EGNER, WALLACE. MORMON COUNTRY. NEW TORK, 1942.

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